yeah it's true his income streams are related to like onlyfans, casinos, grift from selling "educational" materials... could be better businesses
I personally thought his writing was among the best of traditionalists, like if you read his last dotcom post: http://pope-michael.com/2021/07/19/thoughts-on-the-recent-motu-proprio-of-francis-pope-of-the-conciliar-church/
I notice as I reread it that there were a bunch of spelling errors, but I think the substance still shines.
Yrs I am aware of the communists becoming "clergy". So we think that at Vatican 2, a communist or anti-Catholic " pope" was elected. But he could not actually become pope in spite of being recognized as such. Then he went about making changes we believe are incompatible with Catholicism with the Second Vatican Council. It is like red flag laws, which violate the U.S. Constitution. Although here the unjust changes cannot be accepted as they would make Catholicism no longer Catholic (so it is argued).
yes so "pope" Michael I think correctly reasoned the Church's institutions were taken over, therefore made not Catholic. So his simple reasoning was that Catholics should separate from this non-Catholic entity and elect a pope for themselves and act as a separate institution, which sounds reasonable to me, it's just a question of if the arguments hold about the ability to do so (I argue for sedevacantism or belief in avoiding the Vatican 2 church, but not conclavism or then electing a pope, although I still consider conclavism to be a bit of an "open" and unresolved question and discussion).
follow the money
I've thought of their concern of ecological collapse as a kind of materialistic End Times / Apocalypse substitute
yeah I like to post here about topics like this as I think politics and religion overlap and affect each other
and a lot of the material like in the OP prots and orthos agree with anyway I think (besides specific Catholic teachings they don't)
personally I see a lot of "good" and "bad" people of all kinds of backgrounds (although as far as what I think is true, I take a minority trad Cath view)
plenty of "Catholics" who don't believe demons literally exist while there are some prots on the other hand praying for protection from demons
really wish the "sincere believers" could work out differences and become one united Church. Wish the "apostates in practice" would repent too.
idk if Western Catholics have anything extra special going on this time of year, unless you find something in research or pray about it and get an idea, although given this was a thing pre-schism in the east I'm wondering if the West should also be doing something like this and posting for people to think about, meditate on, etc.
it's a time perhaps for secular business, or prayer and fasting individually
(eastern catholics I think broke off from orthodox back to catholicism, and orthodox have been observing this fast pre-schism I believe, so it is a historically "Catholic" fast when both churches were united as one, I think, but more in the east)
well the transfiguration is on the 6th, it's just a regular feast though I think
(I'm not sure if dormition and assumption are used interchangeably as words, assumption is western, dormition eastern, see link below for comparison article):
https://infogalactic.com/info/Assumption_of_Mary
the day before certain major feasts traditionally is called a vigil, like the day before the assumption (15th) is the vigil of the assumption (14th). But I don't think there's fasting or abstinence required. Assumption is a holy day
edit: I'm trying to figure out the liturgical year more. The "time after pentecost" traditionally (or "ordinary time" for the Vatican 2 followers) is like half the year and not as much going on. The fall has advent / Christmas / Epiphany, a break, then Lent / Easter / Eastertide (Time after Easter) / Pentecost. So this was one thing I stumbled upon, along with the "apostles' fast" (another eastern catholic / orthodox fast) back in June, that are part of the in between time:
bait memes are lulzy
we knew this before "covid" tbh
now make sure to fix it by not requiring degrees for these jobs and dismantling higher education requirements so you're not dependent on lefty institutions or their graduates for medicine
understood although homeless would probably prefer pods over nothing, bugs over no food, and EVs over no vehicle, for example (there may be a use case for some of these things, and regulations which prevent simple housing for lower income people for example doesn't really help)
lulwut
this is one of those comments being taken out of context presumably
sanitation was recognized as being more effective at preventing disease than vaccines: https://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/how-plumbing-not-vaccines-eradicated-disease
naw quarantining is actually helpful, or like sanitation
but covid may not have needed it
edit: please read and think before downvoting, maybe it's just bots
social distancing (quarantining) is kind of legit and nice for respecting personal space tho
more popular than ever
it's remarkable to me how the "alternative" narrative seems to be flip flopping on the EV issue
for years it was thought to be a suppressed better technology that could liberate us from slavery to foreign oil with documentaries like "who killed the electric car"
now conservatives are thinking they're suppressing gas engines instead
I think it could be both, I like EVs but how they'll roll them out probably won't be great and they'll just be encouraging people to consoom and unnecessarily "upgrade"
faraday cage it?
good point but
requesting spoonfeed if anyone will plz
> he still supports it knowing vaers, constituents saying not to, news stories of "sudden adult dying syndrome", etc.
btw this is kind of a b8post, I just don't know what the "narrative" is that we here hold to on this topic?
it gets better and better lmao
how about not taxing them in the first place
also c/transportation
plugging c/sede as well
I don't think the post-Vatican 2 movement observes these as much anymore, maybe the "fssp / indult" people do though
so, although it doesn't use the words, it is accusing churches like the Catholic Church of being heretical, and those churches in turn accuse it of being heretical. So, you have to decide which church to follow, which is true, based on its fruits and other claims and such.
Many of us here believe that these views of the link have been rightly condemned as heretical as they contradict other teachings, or sources (like it mentions a Gospel of Peter, I think, but this contradicts the other four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, etc.).
sounds illegal